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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| P30CA086862 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | NIH |
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This randomized pilot clinical trial studies healing touch or usual care in improving quality of life in patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Healing touch may improve the quality of life of patients undergoing stem cell transplant.
Primary Objectives:
I. To estimate the effects of healing touch (HT) vs usual care in the following clinical outcomes of stem cell transplant (SCT) patients; length of hospital stay, days to engraftment, and number of hospital readmissions during 100 days post-transplant.
II. To estimate changes in quality of life (QoL) which occur during hospitalization of SCT patients who receive HT vs. usual care.
III. To examine differences in effects of HT vs. usual care (UC) in patients receiving related allogeneic (Allo) transplant compared to those receiving autologous (Auto) transplant.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM I: Patients receive daily HT sessions comprising pain drain, chakra connection, magnetic clearing, and mind clearing over 30 minutes from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital.
ARM II: Patients receive routine nursing care from doctors and nurses from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 100 days.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Arm 1 (healing touch) | Experimental | Patients receive daily HT sessions comprising pain drain, chakra connection, magnetic clearing, and mind clearing over 30 minutes from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital (therapeutic touch). Interventions: therapeutic touch, quality-of-life assessment, and questionnaire administration |
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| Arm II (usual care) | Active Comparator | Patients receive routine nursing care from doctors and nurses from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital. Interventions: quality-of-life assessment, and questionnaire administration |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| therapeutic touch | Procedure | receiving healing touch |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Length of hospital stay, Days to engraftment defined as absolute neutrophil count (ANC: segs + bands) greater | Up to 100 days | |
| Changes in QoL (POMS-SF, FACT-BMT, CES-D) | Changes in levels of QoL measures before and after hospitalization will be compared using the paired t-test or the nonparametric paired sign test, if the assumption of normality is substantially violated. | Baseline up to 100 days |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of hospital readmissions | Up to 100 days |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Susan K Lutgendorf, PhD | University of Iowa | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Iowa City | Iowa | 52242 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| D005221 | Fatigue |
| D019337 | Hematologic Neoplasms |
| D010146 | Pain |
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| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D009371 | Neoplasms by Site |
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| ID | Term |
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| D019124 | Therapeutic Touch |
| D014110 | Touch |
| ID | Term |
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| D026441 | Mind-Body Therapies |
| D000529 | Complementary Therapies |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
| D026443 | Spiritual Therapies |
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| quality-of-life assessment | Other | Ancillary studies |
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| questionnaire administration | Other | Ancillary studies |
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| D009369 | Neoplasms |
| D006402 | Hematologic Diseases |
| D006425 | Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
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| Sensation |
| D009424 | Nervous System Physiological Phenomena |
| D055687 | Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena |